My thinking is if you dialed 999 for theft of a bike you'd be waisting the time of the emergencies surely?
Is there a number for lesser crimes being witnessed? Most people don't know it. Therein lies the problem.
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When it was on local news
the reporter told the police that someone had text in to say they rang 999 to report a bike crime and the copper said they couldn't do anything about it. The response was that people should at least call it in, I'm guessing for statistics?
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Herb Alpert's Taxi Driver I have very beautiful lips, Fri 9 Nov 2012, 19:19,
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But if you dialed 999 would you be wasting the call time that could be used for a life and death emergency?
That'd be my concern. That's why I wouldn't have dialed 999. I'd have taken a photo/reported it to the police, but my intuition wouldn't tell me to dial 999 on the spot. Maybe I'm in the wrong.
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After watching '999: What's your emergency?'
calling in bike crime will seem like a proper emergency compared with the shit that gets called in over a weekend.
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Herb Alpert's Taxi Driver I have very beautiful lips, Fri 9 Nov 2012, 19:41,
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^this
life or property is at risk.
They won't do anything about it like, but you apparently should ring 999 anyway
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t0ria has forgotten how this all works, Fri 9 Nov 2012, 19:32,
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08000683625
Is the non-essential number you need.
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Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Fri 9 Nov 2012, 20:51,
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...and then steal it back again!?
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Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Fri 9 Nov 2012, 21:07,
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